Hearty Vegetable Pasta Bake

Our family loves a hearty meal, especially when working hard on the farm. This Hearty Vegetable Pasta Bake recipe is full of flavor from the vegetables, sun dried tomatoes and cheese. We make it on Fridays during Lent since it’s meat free. It would be great with chicken other times of the year.

We have young children who love pasta, so we’ve eaten a lot of macaroni. We enjoy trying some fancier pasta in a dish like this. This Hearty Vegetable Pasta Bake tastes and feels like a meal we would get at a nice Italian restaurant, but it’s easy enough to make at home and helps keep our budget on track.

I also love that there are so many vegetables in the dish, but the kids never complained about them because they mixed in so nicely with the sauce and cheese. I made sure to dice the onions and peppers well so that they would blend in well.

My husband was surprised the recipe didn’t have meat. The sun dried tomatoes really give the pasta bake a hearty flavor that is wonderful.

We are glad to have such a large dish because we pack extras for lunch and we freeze a few individual lunches or bigger portions for future family meals.